NZXT's silver Guardian

Transformer's fans this way...

 

You dont wanna be transporting a case with those purple clippy things holding in your drives - they all too often fall out My bro found that out moving his across the room.

If they spent more time/budget on the internal design rather than flashy chasey LEDs it might be more appealing, having said that - did i watch a different transformers to everyone else??

 

Not to keen on it myself, but the doors over the USB/audio connectors on the front are quite neat.

I found the 'purple clippy things' ok, we have them on our fieldtrip machines and they've survived being lugged to antartic/amazon and back fine....

 

As with Atomic, that hasn't been my experience. I had some problems with them on a Scorpio case but they hadn't been looked off properly... I've transported a case with them since a few times and had no problems.

Rob.

 

Why this case hit the front page, I do not know...it is shockingly minging (horrid)

 

At a glance I would have to say this case would have a very limited appeal, even to transformer fans.
It does have some nice features as previously mentioned, but they are grossly outweighed by the looks.

 

I got bets bindi's brother also forgot to push the lock bit up/down...

 

Probably, considering there are approximately four series and two spinoffs. I like spin off no. 1, but no. 2 just plain sucked.

 

Na, the locks hold but the bits of metal that poke into the holes, dont poke into the holes very well and the drives slip down.

 

thats got to be the ugliest pile of plastic-y crap i've seen in a long time. Not since ThermalTake Xaser cases first came out have i seen something so ridiculous. Why is it pc mod/case manafcturers assume we all have the tastes of 13 year olds?

What ever happened to minimalism and good taste?

 

"The Guardian certainly isn't capable of turning into a robot, well not without a mod or two."

sounds like a challenge!!!

 

not my bag but it may appeal to the "younger" peeps, one thing that hasnt been mentioned though is that it looks like the door is hinged on the motherboard side - i have looked at loads of cases with doors on and havnt got one because they all seem to hinge on the window side, just me or is this ridiculous?
so a case not meant for modders, but with some internals that are usefull, which is why i always read these reviews.
looks are always subjective tbfh but im not gunna disagree with the "minging" comment....

 

this belongs over at the "thermaltake wannabes" camp

if i see anyone with this case at the next lan i go to, im going to laugh at them.

the exhaust fan thingy looks shockingly restrictive. i think the ONLY plus to this case is that teh door opens the right way (as opposed to all the cheiftec variations)

too much plastic, and it looks low quality and cheap